Weissburgunder trocken
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared white fish, roasted chicken with herbs, and white asparagus with hollandaise sauce.
✨ Technical Specifications
While the steep, slate-strewn slopes of Germany's Mosel valley are globally renowned for Riesling, historic estates like Selbach-Oster have successfully championed the elegant Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc) in this cool-climate terroir. Sourced from vineyards where slate soils impart a distinctive, flinty minerality, this dry (trocken) white wine offers a fascinating departure from the rounder, weightier Pinot Blancs of southern Germany. Fermented with natural yeasts and raised in a combination of traditional large oak Fuder casks and stainless steel, it beautifully marries the natural, creamy texture of the grape with the electric acidity and mineral tension characteristic of the Mosel. This wine represents the Selbach family's deep respect for artisanal, hands-off winemaking, proving that the Mosel's dramatic cliffs can coax extraordinary nuance from Burgundian varietals.
🍾 About the Producer
Steeped in centuries of family winemaking tradition along the dramatic slate slopes of the Middle Mosel, Weingut Selbach-Oster represents one of Germany's most distinguished Riesling estates. Managed by Johannes Selbach and his family, the estate meticulously tends prized, steep vineyard parcels across legendary grand cru sites including the Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, Zeltinger Schlossberg, and Wehlener Sonnenuhr, home to significant plantings of ancient, ungrafted vines. Cellar practices emphasize minimal intervention, relying on native yeast fermentations and maturation in traditional large oak Fuder casks to capture pure terroir expression and vibrant acidity. Selbach-Oster is celebrated worldwide for its benchmark, slate-driven Rieslings spanning crisp, mineral-rich Kabinett and Spätlese bottlings to profound, luscious single-vineyard Auslese and rare Eiswein expressions.